"When first planning a visit to West China, I set my heart on going in from the west, for I had long wished to see the wild, picturesque country that lies between the Burmese frontier and the Yangtse. Years before, I had looked across the border and promised myself that some day I would find out what lay on the other side. But when the time came the difficulty of securing a Chinese interpreter in Burma forced me to go to Hong Kong, and once there, lack of time made it necessary that I should choose the shortest route into West China, and that was by way of Haiphong and the Red River railway. After all, there were compensations. Even a fleeting vision from the windows of a railway carriage gives some idea of what the French are doing in their great Eastern colony..."
- ISBN10 0364615249
- ISBN13 9780364615249
- Publish Date 23 December 2018 (first published 4 April 2015)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Forgotten Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 414
- Language English